‘Someone has a case of the sads’: Editor who dismissed Sarah Palin’s Russia/Ukraine prediction whines

In 2008, Sarah Palin was mocked for suggesting that the election of Barack Obama could result in Russia invading Ukraine. It now seems Palin’s prediction is coming to fruition, in an “uncontested arrival” kind of way.

Blake Hounshell, a former editor of Foreign Policy who is now an editor with Politico, called Palin’s prediction an “extremely far-fetched scenario” at the time.

Now that it’s not so far-fetched, Hounshell nevertheless is playing it snide: